Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Hardy
more than once. As per my original mail above, these two commands will show you the hidden processes. First one asks chkrootkit why it thinks there is an LKM Trojan on the system. Second one is the helper script run by chkrootkit that lists the hidden processes but can be run directly.

Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-21 Thread Wackojacko
ginal mail above, these two commands will show you the hidden processes. First one asks chkrootkit why it thinks there is an LKM Trojan on the system. Second one is the helper script run by chkrootkit that lists the hidden processes but can be run directly. I am still seeing output from

Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Wackojacko on 16/08/08 13:02, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 06:17, Wackojacko wrote: Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a littl

Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Wackojacko on 16/08/08 13:02, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 06:17, Wackojacko wrote: Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a littl

Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-16 Thread Wackojacko
Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 06:17, Wackojacko wrote: Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a little further I see this has been a proble

Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/16/08 06:17, Wackojacko wrote: Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a little further I see this has been a problem in the past but w

chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-16 Thread Wackojacko
Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a little further I see this has been a problem in the past but was unable to find any recent examples.

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 25 August 2007 00:43, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Very easily. The very first thing the trojan did after installing itself > was to call home. Home has the address of the trojaned machine. Home can > then check up on its trojan and maintain it and activate it or repair it > as necessary.

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Carl Fink
Note: top posting fixed. Please don't do that. Also overquoting trimmed. On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 02:43:41AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote: > > >On Friday 24 August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >>how these trojans survive is by surviving operating syst

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Very easily. The very first thing the trojan did after installing itself was to call home. Home has the address of the trojaned machine. Home can then check up on its trojan and maintain it and activate it or repair it as necessary. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote: On Friday 24 Aug

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 24 August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls. > The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on > disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves > back into the areas wher

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread John Hasler
> how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system > reinstalls. The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way > places on disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy > themselves back into the areas where no more disk wiping by the installer > is about to

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls. The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves back into the areas where no more disk wiping by the installer is about to happen

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:01:21PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Why do you believe a security erasure is needed rather than simply > starting with a fresh block zero? If infected, the OP can use a > Debian Installation CD and make new partition tables. > Good question. I've yet to hear a definit

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 24 August 2007 16:16, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. > That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you > can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from > http://dban.sf.net and bu

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from http://dban.sf.net and burn that on a single session CD and boot it up on the infe

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:24:35AM -0400, John wrote: > Today's run of chkrootkit produced the following ominous message: [elided] > Am I right in thinking the only thing to do is wipe the machine down > to bare metal and reinstall? I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable to do > much forensic checki

Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread John
You have10 process hidden for readdir command You have 121 process hidden for ps command chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient3[5654]) -- Am I right in thinking the only thing to do is wipe the machine do

Re: chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome

2004-08-17 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Gregory Pierce wrote: > In running chkrootkit (version 0.43) tonight I got the following > warning: > > Checking `lkm'... You have16 process hidden for readdir command > You have16 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Tr

Re: chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome [from debian-user]

2004-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Gregory Pierce: > > In running chkrootkit (version 0.43) tonight I got the following > warning: > > Checking `lkm'... You have16 process hidden for readdir command > You have16 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan ins

Re: chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome

2004-08-16 Thread Gregory Pierce
I ran "chkrootkit -x lkm" and I got the following output: debian-dell:/home/gpierce# chkrootkit -x lkm ROOTDIR is `/' ### ### Output of: ./chkproc -v -v ### PID 15705: not in readdir output PID 15705: not in ps output CWD 15705: /home/gpierce EXE 15705: /usr/bin/nautilus PID 15710: not in readdir

chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome

2004-08-16 Thread Gregory Pierce
Hello all, In running chkrootkit (version 0.43) tonight I got the following warning: Checking `lkm'... You have16 process hidden for readdir command You have16 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed But when I run chkrootkit from KDE it com

chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome

2004-08-16 Thread Gregory Pierce
Hello all, In running chkrootkit (version 0.43) tonight I got the following warning: Checking `lkm'... You have16 process hidden for readdir command You have16 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed But when I run chkrootkit from KDE it com

Re: lkm trojan

2004-04-10 Thread Pistnbroke
Hi I am replying to the LKM trojan thing, i have seen this in my install too. Last night i reinstalled, and i 1>fresh install 2>unplugged the net And run chkrootkit imiadiatly after install done.it said 3 processpossible trojan installed...i would have to believe thi

Re: lkm trojan

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:35:20AM +0100, @(none) wrote: > Does LKM trojan and the 0's mean that these 4 are sabotaged Loadable > Kernel Modules? Not necessarily. RTFArchives. - -- .''`. Paul John

Re: lkm trojan

2004-02-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello '@(none)'! On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:35:20AM +0100, @(none) wrote: further to my 4 hidden processes, "ps" finds exactly 4 processes with PID # 0! [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ijbd# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.1 0.076

lkm trojan

2004-02-07 Thread @(none)
Hi, further to my 4 hidden processes, "ps" finds exactly 4 processes with PID # 0! See the scriptfile below. I later found out that "top" numbers these processes as 3,4,5 & 6, same sequence. The names of the processes I find this hard to understand: Does LKM trojan and

Re: lkm trojan

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:38:59AM -0700, user list wrote: > How do I diagnose this further, and if there is an LKM trojan, how do I > remove it? Please read the archives and chkrootkit's bug reports. This is likely a known bug. Check

Re: lkm trojan

2003-12-22 Thread user list
ave 4 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > How do I diagnose this further, and if there is an LKM trojan, how do I > remove it? > > Art Edwards > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject o

lkm trojan

2003-12-22 Thread user list
I just ran chkrootkit on one of my machines at it turned up the following: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed How do I diagnose this further, and if there is an LKM trojan, how do I remove it? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBS

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help - Thank You

2003-11-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:10:14 +0100, Thomas H. George wrote: > I still must learn about the "/rr_moved" directory which blocks my > backups but this is a separate issue so I will post a separate question. man mkisofs, look for rr_moved in various capitalizations. -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .s

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help - Thank You

2003-11-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:39:30AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I still must learn about the "/rr_moved" directory which blocks my In case it helps : rr_moved is the name used for a special directory on iso9660 filesystems when using Rock Ridge extensions. IIRC it is needed because standard

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help - Thank You

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:58:31AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:49:31 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. > > > > Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalli

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. > Are you aware to, for example, the section titled `Running chkrootkit' of http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing? I don

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Bug in chrootkit. Check Debian Bugs. Has been discussed here before. Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd backup using growisofs. The backup of /usr was

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Thomas! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Wow, hold on, first check chkrootkit -x lkm and see whether the report only contains PID 3-6. If so then it's only a bug, see

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:49:31 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. > > Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd > backup using growisofs. > The backup of /usr was successful,

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Do you have any other evidence of the LKM Trojan, beyond chkrootkit's output? I think you may just be looking at a bug that's not yet be

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217278 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=219730 > Before reformating the hard dri

Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd backup using growisofs. The backup of /usr was successful, backup of /var failed with duplicate names in /rr_moved. Obviously I would like to

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:52:56PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > > You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) > > It happens in testing too. bugreport chkrootkit and look for the bug in question and attach that information if you don't already see it.

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 05:10:00PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > (shouldn't this be more severe than wishlist, I mean, as the reporter > says it almost gives people a heartattack...?) No. /usr/share/doc/chkrootkit/README.Debian - -- .''`. P

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-16 Thread Gerard Ceraso
mmand > > > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > > > You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) > > It happens in testing too. > -- > Richard Kimber > http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:10:00 +0100 Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Checking `lkm'... You have     4 process hidden for ps command > > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) It happens in testing

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 16 November 2003 16:41, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > Checking `lkm'... You have     4 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) I did the same thing a few weeks ago, and was as shocked as you. But I googled t

LKM Trojan

2003-11-16 Thread Gerard Ceraso
It seems that I have been infected with the LKM trojan. Below is what I received from running chkrootkit. I was wondering is there is a way to find out how I was infected, and more importantly is there a quick and easy way to remove it. Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden f

Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-29 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
See also bug report filed on chkrootkit: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217278 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-29 Thread wil
Apart from the LKM trojan warning i'm also getting: Checking `scalper'... Warning: Possible Scalper Worm installed Running SID(update every day) False alarm aswell i presume? Cheers At 20:18 28-10-2003 -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I got the following o

Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Micha Feigin wrote: I got the following output from chkrootkit but couldn't find any explenation on what processes don't appear: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed I recently (two weeks) built a new box behind a fire

Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-28 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 27 October 2003 23:37, Micha Feigin wrote: > Checking `lkm'... You have     4 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Uh-oh, I'm seeing this too... I have just upgraded to unstable... Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Co

chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I got the following output from chkrootkit but couldn't find any explenation on what processes don't appear: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed How do I check this? I also got: Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s